Broom-holder.



. I PATENTBDIOGT. a, 1907. I. BRENNAN.

. BROOM HOLDER. v APPLIOATION FILED HA3. 2. 1907.

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UNITED STATES.

PATENT OFFICE.

BROOM-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 8, 1907.

Application filed March 2, 1907. Serial N0- 360,201-

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, TERRANCE BRENNAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Coatesville, in the county of Chester and State of Pennsylvania, have invented new and useful Improvements in Broom-Holders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to broom holders of that class which arecomposed of a piece of resilient wire bent to form a broom engaging member, and a base board upon which said resilient engaging member is supported; and it has for its object to provide a device of this class which shall possess superior advantages in point of simplicity, durability and general efiiciency; which, in operation, will support a broom in such a manner that it will be readily accessible for use whenever desired, and also in such a manner that the broom in question shall be supported from contact with the floor; and in which the engaging member and base board may be readily separated, so as to enable them to be conveniently packed for shipment, and again connected previous to being exposed for sale.

With these and other ends in view which will readily appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the same consists in the improved construction and novel arrangement and combination of parts which will be hereinafter fully described and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings has been illustrated a simple and preferred form of the invention; it being, however, understood that no limitation is necessarily made to the precise structural details therein exhibited, but that changes, alterations and modifications within the scope of the claims may be resorted to when desired.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the broom holder. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view of the Fig. 3 is a detail view showing in elevation the rear side of the base board. Fig. 4 is aperspective view of the engaging member, detached.

Corresponding parts in the several figures are denoted by like characters of reference.

The improved broom holder comprises a base board A and a broom engaging member B.

The base board A is an ordinary flat piece of board with rounded ends having apertures 1 near the ends thereof for the passage of fastening members such as screws 2 whereby it may be secured in position upon the wall or in any suitable location. Said base board is also provided intermediate of its ends with two apertures 3-3 and with vertically disposed approximately parallel recesses 44 adjacent to and communicating with said apertures, as will be clearly seen in Fig. 3 of the drawings.

The broom engaging member is composed of a length of spring wire which is bent upon itself to form a U- shaped loop 5 disposed in an approximately horizontal plane, and the side members of said loop are then bent upon themselves to form two auxiliary loops (S 6 disposed approximately in vertical planes; the terminal ends of the wire, or of the free side members of the loops 6-6 being finally bent in the direction of the horizontally disposed loop 5 to form hooks 7. It will be noted that the downwardly extended terminals 7 of the free side members of the loops 6 are extended slightly beyond the arched portion of the horizontal loop 5, to permit the base board A to be interposed between said hooked terminals and arched portion of the loop 5, as will be clearly seen in Fig. 2 of the drawings.

The engaging member may be readily applied to the base board by inserting the hooked terminals through the apertures 33, as indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 2, the arched portion of the loop 5 being meanwhile projected in rear of the base board adjacent to the edge of the latter. After properly engaging the hooked terminals 7 with the apertures 3, the engaging member is carried to the position shown in full lines in Fig. 2 with the arched portion of the loop 5 abutting upon the front side of the base board, thus effecting a secure connection between the component membersof the device.

When the improved broom holder is secured in position upon the wall of a room, the broom handle may be introduced into the loop 5 between the free ends of the loops 66, the latter loops resiliently engaging the broom handle and holding the latter in position, as will be readily understood.

This device as will be seen, is extremely simple in construction and capable of being produced at a very moderate expense; it presents a neat appearance and is thoroughly efficient for the purposes for which it is provided. The recesses 4 in the rear side of the base board A will accommodate the hooked terminals 7 of the en gaging member of the device so as to present an almost flush rear surface which will enable the device to be neatly fitted in position; to assist in this, the rear sides of the terminal portions or hooks 7 are preferably flattened as will be clearly seen at 8 in Fig. 4 of the drawings.

Having thus fully described the invention, what I claim as new is: I

1. In a device of the class described, a baseboard having a pair of apertures and provided in its rear side with approximately vertical and parallel recesses adjacent to said apertures; in combination with a detachable resilient broom gripping or engaging member detachably connected with the baseboard; said broom gripping member being formed of Wire and comprising a horizontal loop, approximately vertical loops adjacent thereto and hooked terminals extended through and detachably engaging the apertures in the baseboard and accommodated in the recesses in the rear side of the latter; the arched portion of the horizontal loop abutting upon the front side of the. baseboard intermediate the vertical loops.

2. A broom holder comprising, in combination, a baseboard and a broom engaging member detachably connected therewith, said baseboard being provided with apertures in the rear side thereof extending downward from said apertures, and said broom engaging member comprising a U-shaped loop disposed in a horizontal plane with its arched portion abutting upon the front side of the base board, and approximately vertical loops formed upon the side members of the horizontal loop and having side menr bers provided at their free ends with downturned exten- 1O sions projecting through the apertures of the baseboard and retained detaehably in the ret'esses in the rear side of the latter by the pressure of the horizontal (I-shaped loop against the front side of the baseboard.

In testimony whereof, I allix my signature in presenre of two witnesses.

'IERRANCE Bl! IJUNAN.

Witnesses \VILLL\M S. G. Coon, lhmmc Wane. 

